President’s Operational Excellence Awards 2011: The Stars are Out

The President’s Operational Excellence Awards event was held Nov. 1 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada — truly a celebration of excellence across the company.

The 2011 award recipients are:

• The President’s Award
• Personal and Process Safety Management
• People
• Reliability
• Environment and Sustainability

The President’s Award

• Libya Evacuation emergency response management team, E&P

Personal and Process Safety Management

• Personal Safety Suncor Individual
  Tony Topolinsky, area construction manager, Major Projects

• Personal Safety Suncor Team
  Large team - Oil Sands Mining Slips Trips and Falls rapid results team, Mining, Oil Sands
  Small team - Transmission and Distribution Services ‘Look Up and Live’ campaign, Oil Sands

• Personal Safety Contractor Individual/Team
  In Situ Drilling, Completions, Logistics Nabors 102 Rig crew, In Situ

• Overall Health and Wellness
  No award this year

• Overall Process Safety
  Three teams doing similar work were bundled together under the title ‘Safety Instrumented System Improvements’ and are joint recipients:
  • Firebag Process Safety and Plant Operability Project, In Situ
  • Improving Safety Instrumented Systems at the Sarnia refinery, R&M
  • Safety Instrumented Systems Test Procedure Development & Execution, Edmonton refinery, R&M

• Overall Personal Safety
  Libya Evacuation response management team, E&P

People

• Suncor Individual
  Martin Mudryk, EHS supervisor, In Situ Drilling, Completions and Logistics, Operations Support

• Suncor Team
  Mine Operations Learning and Competence, Mine Operations Support, Oil Sands

• Contractor Individual/Team
  No award this year

• Overall People
  No award this year

Reliability

• Suncor Individual
  Bryan Mueller, rotating equipment reliability engineer, Commerce City refinery, R&M

• Suncor Team
  Oil Sands Turnaround Maintenance and Reliability Improvements, Oil Sands

• Contractor Individual/Team
  Schlumberger and Baker-Hughes, High Temperature Electric Submersible Pump team, Business Services

• Overall Reliability
  Oil Sands Maintenance and Reliability Improvements, Oil Sands

Environment and Sustainability

• Suncor Individual
  Jean-Simon Bouret, energy conservation engineer, Montreal refinery, R&M

• Suncor Team
  Crude #10 Heat Integration Initiative, Montreal refinery, R&M

• Contractor Individual/Team
  No award this year

• Overall Environment and Sustainability
  Montreal Refinery Leadership on Energy Efficiency, R&M